Back in March 2016 Chris of the ace Circle Master blog & Local Tryanuary Champion for Beeston in Nottingham sent me a bottle of beer from his home county in the first of what has become an ongoing bottle swap. Every so often he’ll send a Notts brew my way and a Sussex beer will head his […]

Little Looks are the reviews of brews that may be new to the market, a local beer I want to shout about, or simply a classic revisited. For this edition of Little Looks, guest contributor Chris Norman gives us his opinion of Primavera, a beer from the Brighton based Lazy Lizard Beer co, one of […]

Little Looks are the reviews of brews that may be new to the market, a local beer I want to shout about, or simply a classic revisited. The Lowdown: Story has it that it all started in 1905 when Thomas Fentiman found himself in a loan deal with a tradesman. When said deal was […]

Little Looks are the reviews of brews that may be new to the market, a local beer I want to shout about, or simply a classic revisited. The Lowdown: Sour beers are the strange cousin; very much a part of the beer family, gets invited to all the do’s, but turns up at weddings […]

The first county beer swap with beer reviewer Chris Norman, of the delightful Circlemaster Blog, was a success, so we thought we’d go in for round two. The same theme was followed whereby I sent Chris a Sussex beer and he sent me one from his home in Nottingham. This time around you can find […]

I never used to like hoppy beers. My naive palate found the bitterness to be just too much, too unpleasant, like a slap around the face. Thankfully that’s changed and single hopped beers have played a part over the years in helping me to appreciate the more hopped up brews on the beer spectrum. Citra […]